Improvement in bustles



1.H. HALL.

Bustine.

N0. 135,801. I I I -'Patented Feb.1ll,873.

AM, PHora-umosRAPH/c ca Masamflfls muws) UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN H. HALL, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUSTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 35,801, dated February 1l, 1873.

lIlo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. HALL, ot Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Bustles; and I do hereby declare the following,`when taken in connection with the accompanying' drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and` exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutespart of this specification, and represents, inu Figure 1, a perspective view; and in Fig." 2 a transverse central section.

This invention relates to an improvement Vin the article of wearing-apparel known' to the trade as bustles; and. consists in two or more pockets of crescent form combined with twol or more similar pockets overlaying the same, the overlying pockets being between the pockets below, as more fully hereinafter described.

A B aretwo pockets of crescent form made from any suitable fabric, stitched at a and stuffed with hair or other suitable material. Above these are two other pockets, C D, of

similar form, made in like manner, the pook. ets separated by stitching at d, and of such relative form to the lower pockets that the pocket D will lie between the pockets A and B, as seen in Fig. 2. The inner enges of the two pockets are secured together at E into a band to be secured around the waist. The two upper pockets are independent of the lower pockets,'except at the binding. A frill, F, is

Vattached to the extreme edge, as seen in Fig. l. 

